2022

PAKISTAN INDIA PEOPLES’ FORUM FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY PIPFPD (India) Office: 267 A, Saiyadain Manzil, Gulohar Ave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi -110025 Phone:+91 9868165471|Email- pipfpd.india[at]gmail.com Blog: pipfpd.wordpress.com
25th August 2022
Press Statement
“War is no Option”. PIPFPD urges Pakistan and India need to resume bilateral ties and dialogue for Peace.
We the members of Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy take note of the recent statement of Pakistan’s (…)

BOOK REVIEW
__0__ Not Just Cricket: A Reporter’s Journey through Modern India by Pradeep Magazine
HarperCollins India Pages: 371; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354892116 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354892110
__0__ The best part about Pradeep Magazine is that he just doesn’t love cricket but his heart beats for India. As he exposes the rot in the Indian cricket establishment while hailing some of the finest players the game has produced in this cricket-crazy country, Magazine also takes you to (…)

Book Review by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
__0__ Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family by Seema Chishti
Harper Collins, Publishers India 2022 189 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9354895883 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9354895883 __0__
Seema Chishti’s slim book is a tribute to her parents, and to the secular, multi-cultural “mini-India” that they created. Sumitra Bai and Anees Mohammed Chishti came together across region (she from Karnataka, he from Uttar Pradesh), religion (her Kayasth (…)

* Karnataka C M Basavaraj Bommai’s one year in office | P S Jayaramu
* A new low of Indian media | Narender Nagarwal
* Stalinism, Maoism & The Question Messianic Revolution | Murzban Jal
* Sectarianism and Vanguardism | Anarchist Federation Rio de Janeiro
* PUCL Statement - remission of sentence of 11 convicts in Bilkis Bano case
* Interactive Map: International Arms Sales

Letter to the readers, Mainstream, August 20, 2022
In our overtly misogynist society, every now and then we hear our leaders routinely make symbolic noise for the need for the protection of women’s rights and dignity. Our Prime Minister too made a similar-sounding statement on 15 August 2022, marking the 75th year of India’s freedom from British rule. The very next day, the news media reported the release of 11 convicts, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI special court in (…)

Ambedkar Would Have Been Shocked By Prime Minister Taking His Name Along With Savarkar in his Independence Day Speech in the Context of Service to the Nation
On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of India’s independence Prime Minister Modi while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2022 invoked four names- Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, B R Ambedkar, and V D Savarkar- and said that the countrymen are deeply indebted to them (…)

by P. S. Jayaramu
(5th August, 2022)
Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has recently completed one year in office. Evaluation of his regime are going on. The government is trumpeting its achievements in various fields through advertisements. The Opposition Parties are doing their job by highlighting the government’s failures. It is time to analyze the Bommai government’s performance in the political, economic and social spheres.
The Basavaraj Bommai government came to power in (…)

Whose victory and whose defeat should the turn of political cards in Bihar be termed as? Nitish Kumar (Janata Dal-United) has certainly succeeded in checking his former ally, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s probable move of reversing political tide against him in Bihar. He apparently apprehended this move and did not hesitate in shifting his sides, aligning with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) - to ensure his command as chief minister and thus pushing BJP to ranks of opposition. Perhaps, BJP did (…)

On August 9, the anniversary of Quit India Day Nitish Kumar ousted the BJP from power in Bihar by checkmating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling party with two quick moves of first resigning as the NDA chief minister of Bihar and without wasting precious moments going back to Raj Bhawan to stake claim to form a Mahagathbandhan government with RJD, Congress and the Left parties. He has also quickly formed his new council of ministers with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejaswi (…)

Due to the length of this 5-Part article, we have divided it into two sections. The first appears in this issue of the magazine and will comprise three parts on the state of the country as it exists today; the impact of British Rule and & thirdly trace the process of Globalisation worldwide.
The second section of this article which will appear in the next issue will basically deal with the impact of globalisation (economic reforms) on India and the Swadeshi Alternative together with a (…)